Asus U36SD-RX227X : i5, GT 520M Optimus

Asus launches new 13.3-inch ultraportable career guidance, Asus U36SD-RX227X. It runs on Intel platform Huron River with Sandy Bridge Core i5 processor, hard drive swift good capacity, combined with Nvidia Optimus technology and USB 3.0, all in one chassis compact and lightweight.

It has a thickness of less than 2 cm, weighing well contained below 2.0 kg and a beautiful autonomy announced 10 hours, enough to attract the nomads.

If such autonomy is advanced by the mark, especially because of the great battery capacity but also by the presence of technology Nvidia Optimus that maximizes a function of the graphics Intel GMA 3000 HD integrated processor Sandy Bridge which consumes little energy and leads to greater autonomy.

Optimus also assesses real-time graphics needs for the tasks performed by the user automatically when needed and requested the card Geforce GT 520M dedicated. Like the Intel GMA 3000 HD, it can play HD video but is more efficient. No mistake, however, because in games for example, only the securities resource-efficient 3D can spend.

The overall performance of this model are not cheap and will suit a majority of potential users through the Core i5-2430M Sandy Bridge and 4 GB of RAM, RAM that can easily pass later to 8 GB by adding a strip of 4 GB DDR3 to make it evolve.

Side connections, very correct since found modules including wireless Wi-Fi n and Bluetooth, HDMI and VGA video outputs as well as three USB ports, one of which is a USB 3.0 provide transfers much faster than USB 2.0 with USB 3.0.